Rancho Bernardo’s ninth annual Earth Day fair is returning to a new location — the Ed Brown Center for Active Adults’ patio in Rancho Bernardo Community Park.
Among the offerings will be a vendor area, craft activities, educational presentations, an opportunity drawing and a scavenger hunt.
The free event organized by the Rancho Bernardo Community Council will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday, April 6. The center is at 18402 W. Bernardo Drive.
To participate in the scavenger hunt, people will need to click on a QR code at the council’s booth to a special app. That will give participants a clue as to where to start the process of going from booth to booth, said council President Robin Kaufman.
“Each booth will give them an answer related to the app and a clue to go to the next booth,” she said. “When they complete it, they will come back to our booth for a prize.”
The Community Council’s two student — Anushree Magi and Matilda Messer — put together the event, she said.
The free craft activities include making a bird feeder with a pine cone, peanut butter and bird seeds; face painting and flower seeds that children can plant in biodegradable pots that they can take home with them, Kaufman said.
New and returning vendors will be part of the fair.
Some of the new ones will include Girl Scout Traveling Troop 21 offering a small succulent planting activity for kids to take home and Bach to Rock of Rancho Peñasquitos playing music and offering free lessons with some of the instruments, she said.
The nonprofit organization Healthy Kids, Healthy Planet will be on hand to provide information that promotes healthy food choices and environmental protection by empowering youth to make informed decisions about their diets and their impact on the planet, she said.
“There will be two female falconers present with a dark morph red tailed hawk and a Harris hawk,” Kaufman added. “They will explain how they utilize the hawks, how hawks are beneficial to the environment, how they got involved in becoming falconers and so on.”
Representatives from the San Diego-based initiative Sustainability is Sexy will share their mission to inspire and drive innovation within the community by providing education and solutions to the global climate crisis through connection and tangible actions, she said.
Returning vendor and organization booth participants include the American Cetacean Society, Bareaeli Bazaar, Charming Bee Creations, Earth Made Snow Cones, Ed Brown Center for Active Adults, Environmental Center of San Diego, Farm Fresh to You, Free Flight Bird Sanctuary, Friends of Blue Sky Canyon, Kahoots 4S Ranch, Master Gardeners Association of San Diego County, Open Window Studios, OTB Handmade Crafts, Poway 4-H, Rancho Bernardo Library, San Diego County Bicycle Coalition, San Diego Gas & Electric and San Dieguito River Valley Conservancy.
